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<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>
Hi again - I forgot to forward some other pieces of information about
sushi. The eel (unagi) is served with a sauce that contains soy sauce.
I asked about this sauce this past weekend at a sushi restaurant. The
chef said that eel comes frozen to the restaurants and is already
packaged in the sauce. At the restaurants, more sauced is brushed on.
I recently looked for salmon roe (salmon eggs) in an Asian market. I
found them in the frozen section and packaged in soy sauce. Don't forget
to read labels of things that may seem to be pure. I asked the sushi
chef this weekend about the salmon roe in restaurants. He told me that
at least at his restaurant the salmon roe contained no sauce at all.
I will try to track down the source of this information, but I read
somewhere that miso soup that is not clear broth might have ingredients
that are not gf. This is not to say that clear broth is necessarily gf.
I have never seen clear miso soup in restaurants, so I just don't eat it.
Finally, I have also come across seaweed in an Asian market that
contained MSG, just in case you don't want to eat MSG.
When I am at Japanese restaurants I find it fun and informative to eat at
the sushi bar. I like getting to know my chef and asking all these
annoying questions!! I find that the chefs enjoy the interaction and the
fact that I am so interested!! They never seem bothered. On the
contrary... I also like to see that my food is not contaminated by other
suspicious objects that may be hanging around.
Danna Feldgoise
Brookline, MA
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